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Psyche
Psyche
by hurricane coding
Psyche is a web of serendipitously inter-related images reflecting participants' whims. Participants collaboratively explore the collective unconscious, adding images and drawing relations, creating symbolic and aesthetic clusters.
Judging Instructions
Open the site and you’ll be presented with a recent image. Link in images representing the first thing that pops into your head stream of conscious-style.
There’s an image search bar on the right. Images floating in the peripheries are other real-time users. You can click the logo to be taken to a random image.
Tested in Chrome, Safari, Firefox.
Who
glitchfreedom — NYC
bnewbold — NYC
electronicwhisper
How
- Heroku for hosting
- Amazon S3 for uploaded image hosting
- Transloadit for upload handling
- MongoDB and MongoHQ to store the image URLs and links
- jQuery and Raphael for client JS
- Bing Image Search API
- Socket.IO
- Coffeescript
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chrismatthieujudge
ireneinkyujudge
charlesbeelerjudgeIn spite of the images someone chose to put up while I was testing the app the second time (think ChatRoulette) the concept is an interesting one and could result in some very cool collaborations. Design is basic but works.
_kamzillajudgeI had fun playing with this and would definitely come back to it again. I want a way to undo connections; I clicked a picture that I didn’t want to connect.
jhurt
contestantInteresting idea, terrible design
therazorbladejudgeThis is a lot of fun. It took a while for enough pictures to be linked for it to make sense, but now it’s coming together. The interface can use refinement.
pcaprjudgeMy – socket.io, raphael, nice! Also great use of bing API search with JSONP. Looks like GeoIP is commented out, which would’ve been a pretty nice touch :)
urbanpugjudgeCreative free association. It would be interesting to see the entire graph output into graphml and loaded into a program like yEd.
It is fun to use and interesting to explore. Although this is fun and is more about creative association, it would be interesting to see this applied to a fixed set of images with a set of rules for applying associations. For example, take all the images from wikipedia and then let people associate them by meaning, and then include wikipedia pages in in-page windows of some type. Then, you could browse wikipedia visually (e.g., a map New York is associated with the picture of the statute of liberty, and so on).
airportyh
contestantThis is awesome! Love it, even though could have been more polished.
williamcheung
contestantMEgrez
contestantnice!
devin60070
contestantmustardamus
contestantmariano
contestantThe UI is very well implemented, very easy to follow. I think instead of a URL for placing new images a better approach would’ve been to allow you to pick an image from your albums in FB/Flickr/etc., public image repositories, etc., but I get that would’ve been hard to do in 48 hrs.
I personally wouldn’t see myself using it but it’s an interesting concept.
oddacon
contestantThis rocks. Fun and interesting idea. Would love to add some chat in there to talk about the connections or add meta data to links
Interesting idea that could lead to some useful group extensions. App generally works as promised, but it didn’t want to upload images from URL.